A judge dropped charges Tuesday against a man accused of offering a woman money to spend time with her young daughters.

McDuffie County Chief Magistrate Bryant Swan, who was called in to avoid conflicts of interest, ruled that there was not enough evidence against to charge Chad Eric Stefani, 26, at a preliminary hearing in Evans.

Swan said he dismissed the warrants charging Stefani because he wasn’t sure the crime of criminal intent to commit child molestation actually occurred.

The campus of the new Martinez Elementary School might look like an active construction zone with work trailers, piles of earth and no landscaping. But looks can be deceiving.

“They are actually in the final stages of construction,” Columbia County School System Superintendent Dr. Sandra Carraway said. “The inside is essentially complete. They are putting down some last sections of tile, some last touch-up painting. Other than that, it is very close to completion on the inside.”

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Teen scammed

A teen told deputies March 25 that he was scammed out of nearly $1,000 through www.craigslist.com.

The 18-year-old said he had advertised a radio on the online purchasing site for $40. He said was he was contacted by someone who identified herself as Elaine Brown. She said she’d pay $100 for the radio if she could send a $975 check and have the teen forward the balance to her.

When Claire Brownfield enters the storied halls of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point this fall, she will be following the footsteps of some of the most famed military leaders the world has known -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, to name just a few.

Claire, however, doesn’t have to look in history books for inspirational West Point alumni, she lives with two.

Her parents, Army Col. Mike Brownfield and Sally Brownfield are also West Point graduates.